Ready to sell some tickets and get folks signed up for your next event? If you want to look like you know what you're doing, use one of the many online tools at your disposal. Your website CMS may not have the capabilities to take online registration, sell tickets or manage event marketing with ease. Below we take a look at some of the leading third-party event registration apps and event website services we think you're going to love (or hate, you never know).

Planning an upcoming class, webinar, conference or special event? Once your initial event planning is done, it's time to start promoting the event and getting people to sign up.

There are many ways to promote your event--email marketing, social media, CTAs on your website, and personal invitations, to name a few. Planning event registration from start to finish means getting the right tools and the right process to make the event run smoothly.

Use these event registration best practices to get more people to sign up and show up to your awesome event.

Organizing and promoting an event is hard work. Between dealing with venues, booking speakers and sweating as 50% of your attendees wait until the last possible minute to register, events can be overwhelming.

While there are lots of ways to market your event, one of the most interesting (and effective) ways to promote it is with video. Specifically, with a teaser video.

A teaser video is a "behind the scenes" look into what your event is all about. It helps explain things like:

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As a result, we often feel like we can get all the education and collaboration we need without in-person interaction. To some extent, this is true. Much of the time we can utilize online learning and virtual meetings to collaborate effectively.

However, I find that live events still have a place in professional development. It's difficult to achieve the same level of engagement online as you can in person and live events can play a significant part in your marketing program.

Content is the "fuel" behind inbound marketing. And yes, I know you're tired of all these marketing people telling you to create more content. More, more more!

This is emphasized so much because it works. High-quality content that is focused on your buyer personas and properly amplified is like investing in your 401k. It's hard to do and you don't see the payoff right away but over time you will start to see the results big time if you keep at it.

Even so, most people find it difficult to consistently create this much content. They feel like they need to constantly come up with ideas and write all sorts of original articles all the time and this can feel overwhelming.

There is another way. This won't work for every organization, but it will work for organizations that have annual events. This often includes non-profits, associations and many companies.

The trick is to create a process that "cross-trains" your content across different mediums and use your live event as the framework. Let's dig into the process.

By now, most of us are familiar with hashtags. Yet we still see the occasional post on Facebook from a confused user, "I just don't GET this hashtag thing?!" It's understandable, given that so many people tag their posts with ridiculous hashtags. #youknowwhatimtalkingabout. #help #outofcontrolforreal

As silly as they can be, hashtags do have value for marketers and event planners.

This example illustrates how you can incorporate hashtags into your event marketing strategy.